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Post by MDG on Nov 22, 2020 11:46:58 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 22, 2020 12:44:36 GMT -5
I can't believe this thread has gone this long without anyone mentioning Walt Kelly. Well, speaking for myself, that would mostly be due to limited exposure to examples of the strip, as it wasn't carried in my local newspaper and was done by the time I was conscious of other strips. I have only seen about a half dozen strips, between the late 70s and the 2000s, until I got my hands on a used copy of Ten Ever-Lovin'Blue Eyed Years With Pogo. So, yeah, he did some unique stuff with his lettering, plus his song sheets and other experiments that were pretty unique. I suspect that is one of those things that inspired Chaykin to do dialogue that is supposed to be Russian, in English, with reversed Rs and such, to simulate the cyrillic alphabet.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 26, 2021 15:36:08 GMT -5
Here's (well most of - I had trouble getting the middle of the thick book into my scanner) a page from a 1995 Spirou. I like the way the balloons here are coloured to fit the nighttime ambiance - it's 2am - and especially the 4th panel where, for no particular reason other than it looks good, the balloons are obeying the perspective of the panel.
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Post by MDG on Jan 28, 2021 12:21:07 GMT -5
Here's (well most of - I had trouble getting the middle of the thick book into my scanner) a page from a 1995 Spirou. I like the way the balloons here are coloured to fit the nighttime ambiance - it's 2am - and especially the 4th panel where, for no particular reason other than it looks good, the balloons are obeying the perspective of the panel. Aparo does something similar here, where the lettering follows the non-horizontal panel borders.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 28, 2021 12:55:25 GMT -5
I showed this discussion to Tom Orzechowski last night via facebook messenger. His reply was quite illuminating (especially the bit about Walt Kelley):
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 3, 2021 12:00:13 GMT -5
so here's something I thought cute. The strip is a series of gags about silent movies so naturally the characters talk in intertitle cards: Spirou 2917 du 9 mars 1994
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 31, 2021 17:46:03 GMT -5
Here's a nice wee thing from last weeks Spirou. A supervillain with the ability to turn her speech bubbles into captions. In panel 3 she says: "An Hour later in Kathmandu! Then, "An Hour later in Grandville." Thus trapping our hero on the other side of the world. What she doesn't realise is that he's the only superhero in the world with the power to see adjacent panes and cross frame lines...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2021 17:19:07 GMT -5
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